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SPOOLING MACHINE.

No. 579,489. Patented Mar. 23, 18 97.

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CHARLES S. LORD, OF WINOOSKI, VERMONT.

SPOOLING-IVIACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,489, dated March 23, 1897. Application filed August 21, 1896. Serial No. 603,466. (No model.)

To (tZZ whmn it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LORD, of IVinooski, Vermont, have invented an Improvement in Spoofing-Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to enhance the value of spoofing-machines by improving the stop-motion devices, so that they will act to take up the usual slack without stopping the machine, yet when the yarn breaks or becomes snarled the said devices will be moved to stop the winding of the yarn.

Figure 1, in side elevation, represents a sufficient portion of a spoofing-machine with my improvements added to enable my invention to be understood. Fig. 2 is a partial view of Fig. 1, looking from the left; and Fig. 3 is a detail with the snarling stop-lever shown in the other figures omitted.

The frame A, upright A reel A grooved drum a, winding-roll 24, the spindle cl, on which will be mounted a conical or other shell to enable the yarn to be' wound in a conical or other mass, the support 0 for the spindle,

the traversing yarn-guide b, reciprocated by the usual groove in the face of the drum, the lever g, the lifting device f to elevate the roll 24 from the drum to stop the winding operation, the rotating ratchet-wheel m on the shaft m, the stringer A", the arm A, the leg 9 pivoted to it and having a pivot 9 on which is mounted a leg-lever h, the inner end 13 of which is adapted to be lifted at times to be struck by the teeth of the ratchet m and cause the leg or a part carried by it to strike and turn the lever g and elevate the lifters f, one at each end of the roll 24, and remove it from contact with the drum to stop the winding of the yarn are all substantially as shown in United States Patent No. 514,884, dated February 13, 1894:, with which machine I have herein chosen to illustrate my improvements operatively connected; but my invention is not limited tothe use of my novel mechanism to be hereinafter described, nor to the exact mechanism so far described, and instead I may employ my devices in conneccounty of Ohittenden, State of' tion with any other suitable stop mechanism employed with other forms of spooling-machine wherein the dropping of the take-up lever or the snarling-lever, to be hereinafter described, will stop the winding operation.

I provide the leg 9 or its equivalent with a stud c, on which I mount, as shown, several independent devices-viz., a two-armed lever 0, having a pin or projection c and a heel 0 a take-up lever c having at one end an open thread-receiving eye 2 and at its other end a toe 0 and a snarling stop-lever 0 The eye 2 of the take-up lever hangs on the yarn between the usual traversing guide and the reel, and the lever is provided with a suitable weight 3, preferably adjustable, said weight regulating the tension on the yarn, and in case the yarn breaks the take-up lever drops and meeting the broad outer end 12 of the leg-lever lifts its inner end 13, so that it is struck by the usual rotating stop-wheel to stop the winding operation.

The snarling stop-lever c normally hangs near but not in contact with the broad end 12 of the leg-lever, but when said snarling-lever is struck by the toe 0 of the take-up lever the snarling lever is swung forward and strikes the said end 12 of the leg-leverand depresses it, lifting the inner end 13 to be caught by the stop-wheel to stop the winding operation.

The extremity of the take-up lever beyond its eye 2 is bent outwardly to form a cast-off portion 20, which, when the yarn has turned the said lever far enough on the stud c to cause the toe c to meet and actuate the snarling-lever, owing to its peculiar shape, will discharge itself from the thread, and thereafter the take-up lever will drop, as hereirn before provided for.

The heel 0 of the lever c rests against the leg 9 and said lever c has attached to it, preferably in an adjustable manner, a weight 4, said weight controlling the amount of strain which shall be exerted on the yarn after the take-up lever, it being raised by a snarl in the yarn, meets the pin c ,for before the said take-up lever can be moved far enough to cause its toe to meet and move the snarlinglever the take-up lever must meet the pin c and lift the lever c.

hangs on the yarn between the usual travers- The weights 3 and 4 will be adjusted to suit the different sizes, qualities, and conditions of yarn.

Prior to my invention I am aware that dropwires and pivoted wires hanging on the yarn have been permitted to drop when the yarn broke to strike and turn a leg-lever and stop the winding operation, but such drop-wires are not adapted to act as a take-up to control the yarn being wound in the form of a cone; and so also I am aware that a carriage having a stud about which the yarn winds between a reel and a cone-shaped yarn-receiver has been adapted to run on an inclined track to take up the slack in the yarn due to the varying diameter of the yarn-load; but prior to my invention I am not aware that a take-up lever hanging on the yarn between a reel and a traversing yarn-guide has ever been used to control the slack in the said yarn, the said lever byits movements actuating other levers or devices to operate the leg-lever and effect the stopping of the winding operation.

In this invention, wherein the take-up lever ing guide and the reel, I may, by adjusting the weight 3, make the regular tension more or less, according to the requirements of the yarn being wound, and I am also enabled by the adjustment of the weight 4 to determine the amount of strain to be put on the yarn to take out, if possible, a snarl before the snarllever will be actuated. These adjustments therefore constitute very important features of my invention, and by means of them I may control the winding of the yarn in a manner never before to my knowledge done.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In aspooling-machine for winding yarn, the following instrumentalities, viz: a takeup lever having at one end a thread-eye to hang on the yarn being wound, and at its other end a toe, and a lever adapted to be raised by said take-up lever, and a snarling stop-lever adapted to be moved by said toe on the occurrence of a snarl, combined with mechanism actuated by said snarl-lever to stop the winding operation, substantially as described.

2. In a spoofing-machine for winding yarn, the following instrumentalities, viz: a takeup leverprovided with a weight and having at one end a thread-eye to hang on the yarn being wound, and at its other end a toe, and a lever adapted to be raised by said take-up lever, and a snarling stop-lever adapted to be moved by said toe on the occurrence of a snarl, combined with mechanism actuated by said snarling stop-lever to stop .the winding operation, substantially as described. 1

3. In a spoofing-machine for winding yarn, the following instrumentalities, viz: a takeup lever having at one end athread-eye to hang on the yarn being wound, and at its other end a toe, and a lever having a weight and adapted to be raised by said take-up lever, and a snarling stop-lever adapted to be moved by said toe on the occurrence of a snarl, combined with mechanism actuated by said snarling stop-lever to stop the winding operation, .substantially as described.

4. In a spoofing-machine for winding yarn, the following instrumentalities, viz: a takeup lever heavier at its outer end and provided with an open yarn-receiving eye provided with a cast-off portion 20, combined with a reel, and a traversing yarn-guide, whereby when the said take-up lever is raised to a definite height it will discharge the yarn, substantially as described.

5. In a spooling-machine for winding yarn, the following instrumentalities, viz: a takeup' lever heavier at its outer end and provided with an open thread-eye having a castoff port-ion, and having at its opposite end a toe, combined with a snarling stop-lever adapted to be struck by the said take-up lever, and with stop-motion devices actuated by the said snarling stop-lever, to operate, substantially as described.

6. In a spoofing-machine, a reel, a winding-roll, a rotating drum, a lever having attached devices to remove the winding-roll from contact with said drum, a traversing yarn-guide, means to actuate it, a leg, leglever, and a rotating stop-wheel, combined with a take-up lever having at one end an eye to hang on the yarn between the traversing yarn-guide and the said reel, and having at its opposite end a toe, a weighted lever to put an increased amount of strain on the yarn, and a snarling stop lever acted upon by the said take-up lever after raising the said weighted lever, said snarling stop-lever actuating said leg-lever, as and for the purposes set forth.

7. In a spoofing-machine, a reel and a traversing yarn-guide, combined with a pivoted take-up lever having at one end an open eye to hang on the thread between the said reel and yarn guide, and with an adjustable weight on said lever, whereby adjustment of the weight enables the tension on the yarn to be varied as required, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. S. LORD.

WVitnesses:

H. V. HORTON, A. E. CLEMENT.

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